Although the name of Hainan Women's Cooperative Co., Ltd. has achieved a loud reputation, it is essentially just a thrift store, and the source of goods is naturally from Goujiazhuang. Antique ornaments, calligraphy, paintings, porcelain and other things have no local market, but there are many ordinary household items, especially clothes, shoes and hats, and dozens of cars are loaded with bundles of clothes. These things are very attractive to ordinary people.

However, as Wen Deji said, the capital of the parties involved in the capital is used as the principal of the bookkeeping currency bonds within the traverser, and it has become a big problem how many silver and copper coins should be added to a single coupon. According to the past explanation of the Executive Committee, one coupon is equivalent to one RMB.

"Since the bonds are based on one renminbi, you can use the renminbi as a reference when calculating the value," Li Mei said.

"This, although I don't study economics, but the time and space are different, and the value of the yuan can't be applied in this way." Wen Desi was a little worried, "For example, a rosewood table is worth an old amount of money in the 21st century, and if you want to use the renminbi, this table will not have a sky-high price." ”

"It can be converted into food prices," Mr. Cheng suggested, "and the purchasing power shown in this way is more realistic." ”

He uses rice as a conversion benchmark.

The price of rice in Lingao is one tael or three cents of silver per stone (94.4KG).

The average price of rice in modern Chinese cities is about 3.2 yuan per kilogram, which is converted into stone and 302.08 yuan per stone of rice

In this unit, the actual purchasing power of the renminbi in 1628 was 302.08 yuan, which is equivalent to one tael or three coins of silver. They basically understand the price of high prices, so that they can convert them into RMB more conveniently.

After some complicated cost calculations and understanding the market, Hainan Women's Cooperative Co., Ltd. - referred to as women's cooperative finally opened, because it opened a little later than Yandian, and with Li Mei's own public relations and communication skills, the scene of the cooperative was much larger than that of Yandian. Although it is only a few rows of brick pillars, a simple greenhouse with trellises and tarpaulins on top. But it occupies a large piece of land on Dongmen Street -- this piece of land that Li Mei originally wanted to buy in the name of the company, but the land system is a sensitive topic, and the executive committee does not dare to make the decision, and only after her repeated activities did she issue a three-year land use certificate -- the glorious No. 001.

Compared with the quietness of the opening of the salt shop, the opening of the women's cooperative is particularly "coming". When it opened, not only did it set off 10,000 firecrackers specially bought from the county seat, but there were wooden plaques with five big characters inscribed "Hainan Women's Cooperative" hanging on the simple brick gatehouse, and the brick pillars along the street around were full of signs congratulating the opening. Naturally, there are all kinds of departments: the first block on the left hand is the executive committee, and then the Dongmen City Business Administration Office, the Military Department, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Nanhai Experimental Demonstration Farm...... Even the village committees of Yanchang Village and Damei Village in Mayuan sent congratulatory signs. A pair of loudspeakers at the door kept playing the cheerful "Happy Meeting".

This familiar scene still makes many people feel familiar, even if they don't buy anything, they want to go in and shop. There are more than 10 stalls inside, and there are no counters, but fortunately, there are so many furniture from Gou's house that they are replaced by various tables. It was piled up with a dazzling array of goods -- the first batch of goods to come in, Li Mei also had a calculation in her heart, the purchasing power of the countryside was limited, and the cost was nothing more than food and clothing. Porcelain, ornaments, furniture, these are not necessities, ordinary people can not afford to use two, only clothes and daily necessities, that must be bought. So the main product is clothes, shoes and hats. The clothes are sorted out and separated one by one according to the texture, new and old, and the use is sorted out one by one, and the shoes are all paired to find the whole, and the sorting and classification of thousands of pieces of various clothes is a huge project. The torn clothes are no longer sold, and are directly loaded and pulled to the paper mill construction site to be used as raw materials.

The door of the cooperative was bustling for a while, so it was not noisy, the local aborigines had never seen such a scene, and they gathered over, Li Mei took this opportunity to direct the guys to solicit customers.

The guys were selected from the villagers who moved from Damei Village, and they were all middle-aged women with good faces and good words. Taking a shower and changing clothes, the indigo cloth skirt is all the same, and the words "women's cooperative" are embroidered on the chest, which looks neat and spiritual. She herself is also wearing a green cloth skirt, she doesn't feel like a monkey at all when she wears a bright dress, her face is clean, her hair is neatly combed, and she has a clean and neat smell. Standing alone at the door and greeting the guests from all walks of life, even probing her brain, the natives who did not dare to get too close would greet her in a non-fluent language when she saw her—after all, the main thing was to make their money! The customer is the Buddha.

She knew that farmers in the past often did not dare to enter unfamiliar places easily because of their lack of knowledge, for fear of being deceived. Therefore, the old clothes, shoes and hats, small combs, hairpins and other things that can attract them are put on the shops along the street and sold. The vast majority of ordinary people have never seen so many commodities and goods in their lives, silk and satin clothes, colorful, there are daughters to marry at home, and daughters-in-law to marry, all of them are thinking about picking a few to go back. If you are short of money, you feel that the poor are not blessed to wear this, it doesn't matter, there are many new and semi-new cloth clothes here, and there are all kinds of linen and cotton, what is the price? It's cheaper than weaving your own cloth and asking a tailor to do it. No matter how shrewd and cautious a person is, his heart is alive.

It has been less than an hour since the door opened, and the five-bay façade at the door of the shop is full of people who are immersed in picking things and negotiating prices. Li Mei looked at this lively scene with a smile on her face, and suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with such an inexplicable arrival in 1628 - she had already dreamed of a future business empire, and in the original time and space, it was a peak that could not be reached in any way! As soon as I was excited, my head was a little dizzy, and then I realized that I was almost sixty people-I don't know if I could still see that day-I had to find a Chinese medicine doctor to diagnose the lower pulse, and the autumn season is the day of tonic, isn't it autumn now......

Just thinking about it, I suddenly saw a man and a woman coming out of the east gate, but the woman was blonde and blue-eyed. The people who were watching the bustle at the door saw the new diorama, and they all rushed over to see the barbarian woman.

Li Mei hurriedly separated everyone and greeted her: "Hello Editor-in-Chief Ding, you are also coming to the shop?" ”

The person who came was Ding Ding, the self-proclaimed president and editor-in-chief of the "Lingao Times", and naturally his Yanma girlfriend Pan Lin was next to him. A few days ago, the two of them came back from Damei Village, and they finished a special long report "The Evil History of the Gou Family" overnight, and they just came out yesterday. Hearing that the first joint-stock enterprise had opened, his sensitive news nerves became excited again, and the two of them immediately rushed to Dongmen City.

"Sister Li, your new store opened, and we weren't the first to come to cheer you on, which is rude." Ding Ding is also a character on the scene, and he is even more polite when he speaks. He looked around, "Ah, I didn't even send you a greeting card—"

"Where, just help me promote it more in the future!" Ding Ding is still the editor-in-chief of a newspaper without a newspaper, but Li Mei has no doubt that the "Lingao Times" will one day become a big newspaper group like the "New York Times", and it is much easier to build a relationship now than later.

"Cheng, I'm here to edit today, and I'll give you a special number tomorrow!"

"Hey, that's too xiexie! It is said that when the company opens, everyone should be invited to have a few glasses of wine, and there is no such condition now. In a few days, Mr. and Mrs. Xian will come to my house for a few drinks and I will cook by myself - I still have a few bottles of Pixian bean paste there to make you a Sichuan dish to eat! ”

"Then we must come, I want to boil fish in dead water. You can't find a single red pepper in this place. Ding Ding smiled and said, "Sister Li, take us on a tour." ”

Of course, Li Mei couldn't ask for it, so she took them around to visit, the material conditions were still very simple, but the whole set of business management had been formalized: purchase, receiving, inventory, and sales were recorded. The guy can't read, and Li Mei will do the bookkeeping herself. The remuneration of the guy is in the form of a commission for sales, in other words, there is no fixed salary, and the commission is based on a percentage of sales. The commission ratio of each commodity is different, and the commission ratio of things that are easy to sell is low, and the commission ratio of things that are difficult to buy is high. He manages three meals a day, and his working hours adapt to the habit of getting up early and going to bed early, from 5 am to 6 pm. There are no days off. However, if you have something at home or are sick, you can take time off, and of course taking time off means that you have no income.

This system is a serious violation of labor laws by the standards of another time and space, but it is not very harsh in this time and space. Ding Ding still remembers a visit to Shandong to interview a time-honored brand: until the early 20th century, many of the guys in the shop still did not have a penny salary, and the boss took care of three meals and one night, and at the end of the year, a small red envelope was over.

(Note: In the past, it was quite common for commercial enterprises not to pay basic salaries, and the income of the guys mainly depended on two parts, one was the daily small account income, and the other was that the boss at the end of the year would pay dividends according to human shares.) ）

He saw a few porcelain jars in the corner of the shop, which were full of artemisia tea, a bamboo ladle, and many wooden bowls on the side.

"It's free tea." Li Mei explained that in the past, some merchants used to serve tea in front of their stores every year to make it easier for passers-by, which was a traditional commercial virtue. It's very popular, and it's also good for increasing the number of customers - many people start out just to have a cup of tea, and then they are attracted to the thing.

"You've got a set." Ding Ding couldn't help but admire, "Sure enough, it's a champion in the industry, it's not simple!" I see you're the first to get rich. ”

"Not necessarily." Li Mei smiled and said, "Don't look at this business so hot, this is only the first day, and the days will be long." We are a joint-stock enterprise, renting land use rights, building materials and labor, all the way to the guys' daily meals, but all the cooperatives are spent in cash, except for the goods that the executive committee invests in, the cooperatives do not ask the executive committee for a penny, this has to be said to be a typical example of self-reliance and economic development, right? You have to give me a good publicity, or I can get some preferential policies in the future, right? ”

"Good!" Ding Ding looked excited, and suddenly whispered, "Our women's cooperative, do you allow men to take shares?" ”

Li Mei understood: "Isn't Xiao Pan a woman?" ”

The two of them laughed together.